Thursday, February 28, 2008

Catholics have believed that there should be no false separation between the natural and the supernatural. The natural is seen as the path to the supernatural. The Church believes that there is perfect compatibility between faith and reason.

We see this as being an essential Western perspective, and we interpret this as the way for the Church to affirm science and evolution. This is why the Catholic Church is superior, and this is a central reason why we affirm it.

We see the natural path of biological evolution, which can be mostly understood by reason, as leading to the supernatural and Godhood, which can be mostly seen by faith. Catholic universities reaching back to the very first universities believed that there should be no separation between the natural and supernatural, and this is how we expand and affirm that concept. Will the Church agree? I suppose we shouldn't hold our breath.

The “new religion” of science, which has been very gradually growing since the Renaissance, does have something to add to religion. This new religion may eventually destroy Christianity. We must transmute this new religion of science into the old religion of Christendom, the way the stages of the human nervous system did not destroy the old nervous system but incorporated-while-transcending the old system.

The combination of involution and evolution, representing religion and science, which is synthesized in the Evolutionary Christian Church, can save religion from its increasing deterioration. We see no other organization which seems concerned with this great task. If Christianity rejects the spiritual aspects of evolution it will doom itself to the fate of the old pagan religions. But when Christianity rises again it will contain these evolutionary spiritual elements.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

The ideas (or truths) of the Evolutionary Christian Church do not contradict the Church, they are of another evolutionary realm, whereas the truths of the Church are involutionary.

We have affirmed the material world, also created by God, after centuries of neglect by religion. This is a reconciliation of the spiritual and the material, not a split, and not a denial of the truths of the Church; both realms are needed to attain Godhood. We very much want to retain the unity of the Church.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Traditionalists denounce “evolutionism,” it seems to me, because it talks in terms of “progress” in evolution: the origin of the thing is less important than the form the thing eventually attains. That is, they say God is greater than any evolving thing could be, so how could there be “progress?”

The Evolutionary Christian Church affirms the conjunction of two worldviews: we acknowledge the sovereignty of God yet we affirm cosmic evolution as the way to arrive at progressively higher states, and life forms, until the highest Godhood is attained.

We join with the Traditionalists in their ancient involutionary way to see and contact the God within. Many of us may resemble our earthly father, but more importantly, we contain the image within of our heavenly Father, at the zenith of evolution, which is not merely an image.

Monday, February 25, 2008

We insist on transmuting the evolutionary side of the Evolutionary Christian Church to the involutionary Traditional Church, which contains the continuity of civilization from the time of Christ to the Roman Empire to today. A break from this continuity or unity is not affirmed. From our side we acknowledge no break with the Church, regarding the Involutionary Inward Path. We have added the Evolutionary Outward Path. This is our Twofold Path.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Far from disparaging science, the Evolutionary Christian Church says that science must be elevated to a “material alchemy,” to work in conjunction with Traditional “spiritual alchemy,” with both helping us to arrive at Godhood, that is, through involution (spiritual alchemy) and evolution (material alchemy.) Science has, until now, enjoyed prestige and support for the pursuit of more mundane goals, much as the modern chemists have departed from the spiritual goals of the alchemists.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

The Evolutionary Christian Church initiates what we call “Opening The Floodway” to release The Great Spiritual Blockade ( i. e. the denial by Tradition of biological-spiritual evolution.)

The Great Spiritual Blockade has blocked at least the following: The Traditional ( Primordial Wisdom, the prototype ), Various Sacred Forms (secondary spiritual centers to the original ), Ethnic Chosen (claims of exclusive ethnic knowledge of Primordial Wisdom ), Exoteric Shells ( religions with external aspects of Tradition ), and Litterali (profane rejection or ignorance of the sacred .)

Monday, February 18, 2008

In the general view of Christian history the “outer” barbarian is always wrestling with “inner” traditional Christianity, and this view was set from the beginning by the general ethos against “materialism.” The Evolutionary Christian Church wants to retain every scrap of the inner tradition, yet it also wants to include outer evolution, based on the inner Soul and Spirit must evolve by the outer means of bio-spiritual materialism. Godhood is the highest evolved Objects in the cosmos.

Friday, February 15, 2008

It is another New Age cop-out to describe eternity as “timelessness” in the “present moment,” or to describe the “now-moment” as eternity. The notion of “everlasting time,” or biological immortality is thus disparaged, (see Ken Wilber or Andrew Cohen) and so the Christian as well as the materialist view is disparaged.

Deeper knowledge within the now-moment, which Eastern religions are so found of, is blocked out by what we call “The Great Spiritual Blockade,” where Gurus East and West enjoy swimming and engorging themselves in their personal satoris.

That which we see and experience in the satori is a virtual glimpse of that which we must evolve to, biologically and spiritually, so that we can attain everlasting life and Godhood --- not merely dwelling in the Spirit's present moment.

A “Virtual Bodhisattva” seeks to sink the material world into the now-moment of human satori. The “Evolutionary Bodhisattva” seeks the evolution of the human-experienced satori all the way to God-experienced Godhood, by way of material-spiritual evolution.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

It is not enough to directly unite with divinity in prayer or meditation, yet this is often the sole goal of most religions and most metaphysical schools. This is called “Holy Silence” in Christianity, and “Nirvana” in East, etc. This uniting is a very profound connection with the Infinite, yet it is more a glorious, virtual connection, meant to help us toward our larger goal. To truly unite or reintegrate with the Infinite requires evolution, material-supermaterial evolution, all the way to the God we have first seen within. As our saying goes: Involve to awaken. Evolve to arrive at who awakened you.

Explaining knowledge from intellectual intuition loses something in translation. We do affirm the theological knowledge of the Church, which is based in faith, yet metaphysical knowledge seems to be more direct, not always accessible to all who believe through faith alone.

We think our knowledge can be in harmony with the Church. The Church must be formal to communicate to large groups of people. Yet we hope to enliven the form, which has lost much of its spiritual force.

We speak in a new mode which we think is appropriate for our modern, or at least our future, environment. After years of preparation we still feel like solitary, spontaneous initiates, and so we cannot speak as accepted spiritual masters. The Primordial Truth lives on in any case. it is material and supermaterial, sacred and religious.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

The rejection of evolution by the Traditionalist School always troubled me, I see it as a great error on an otherwise superior view of religion. Evolution has to be understood within religion and metaphysics, as part of the activating way of the Kosmos to attain Godhood.

Before we can attain Godhood we do have the consolation of contacting the God-Within, the Soul, and here at least the Traditionalist School and traditional religion can help. Science, or at least future science, can help in evolving to the God we have first contacted within. We must better learn how to evolve to Godhood.

Monday, February 11, 2008

We need to go far beyond the grand unification of human consciousness, which Pierre Teilhard de Chardin defined as the “godhead” or the “omega point.” We need to go beyond the “noosphere,” beyond Teilhard's “thinking layer,” which he hoped would surround the planet (much like the Internet came to do) like a collective mind (not unlike Jung's collective human unconscious in the interior of our minds and souls.) We must evolve beyond the noosphere if we wish to reach Godhood.

We have been moving from matter to life to mind, and we will continue to move to supermind, but mind and body evolve together, and on to future species, and beyond to Godhood. Scientific materialism soon must include this religious perspective within its calculations, we must have an evolution-friendly vision of science and religion which celebrates both. Theological materialism and the Evolutionary Christian Church affirms this vision.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

We see no need to make a split between Carl Jung and Teilhard de Chardin, where Teilhard's spiritual yearning is wrongly judged as only evolutionary and not archetypal. The yearning for God is found within the Evolutionary Archetype. The urge comes not only from the depths of our psyche but also from the depths of the Kosmos where God dwells.

Jung need not be confined to the past, to ancient archetypes, and Teilhard to future evolution, since the Evolutionary Archetype contains both, and these great thinkers saw aspects of the same archetype.

As Carter Phipps pointed out, the root of the word archetype is “arche,” which means “first principle,” and the Evolutionary Archetype is the first principle in both the past and the future.

Jung's archetypes need not be placed merely in the conservative camp and Teilhard's in the progressive, since Jung's archetypes and Teilhard's evolutionary force are united in the Evolutionary Archetype. This means we need not speak of “post-traditional” or “post-mythological” as Ken Wilber and the New Age tend to do.

Jung might have been trying to align his concept of archetypes with the process of evolution. On his bed stand three weeks before his death was a copy of Teilhard's book, “The Phenomenon of Man.”

Saturday, February 09, 2008

Carl Jung and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin are considered to have contrasting archetypal and evolutionary worldviews, yet since both virtually stop at human consciousness, no matter how advanced, they are in this sense occupying the same turf of human consciousness.

We suggest that one can take Jung's inner search to the deepest past archetypes and arrive at Teilhard's “evolutionary motive force,” which is the Spirit within, what Teilhard calls the energy of Christ in the world. But we go much further than Jung or Teilhard when we suggest that the motive force within, which we could call the Evolutionary Archetype, or Spirit Archetype, is helping to activate evolution (guided by the Soul, which is the zenith of the mind-body) beyond human complexity-consciousness all the way to Godhood. We do not and cannot stop at human consciousness, no matter how advanced that consciousness. We must evolve immensely farther, far beyond the human, to future species with far higher consciousness, all the way to Godhood, which will then fulfill the deepest Evolutionary Archetype or Spirit Archetype of the Will-to-Godhood.

When Jung's archetypes are this way deepened to affirm a truly evolutionary archetype, Jung then becomes an involutionary religious thinker. And when Teilhard's evolutionary motive force is seen as an archetype, he too is understood as applying involution more than evolution toward his noosphere. We affirm a truly evolutionary scientific perspective toward Godhood, as well as the involutionary religious path to the Soul-Within; we go far beyond human consciousness, or global consciousness, beyond the present political correctness of both religion and science. God awaits those who make the evolutionary adventure.

(For a more politically correct comparison of Jung and Teilhard see “The Cosmos, The Psyche And You” by Carter Phipps at “What Is Enlightenment.”)

Thursday, February 07, 2008

We prefer, at least at this time, not to get caught up in the arcane “battles” of the Traditionalist School with exoteric religions, because going inward, which we call involution, and seeing God, or at least experiencing an astonishing aspect of God, is only half (if that) of our spiritual path. We think that it has been possible in both authentic Tradition and inauthentic religion to find the God within, although a Traditionalist initiation is probably the better path to inward enlightenment. Roman Catholicism in the West possesses such a way to know God within, as witnessed by the mystics and saints, and Catholicism has included other excellent Western knowledge. Hinduism also has its saints and it has, perhaps, preserved more of very ancient, authentic Tradition than any present organization, with the Abrahamic Tradition following close behind.

Our task has been to introduce the entirely neglected bio-spiritual element which leads to true Godhood, that is, biological evolution. We think that a Great Spiritual Blockade has taken place in Tradition and in religions, which has blocked knowledge of the bio-spiritual path of evolution to God, and we have found no evidence that this is a hidden dimension within Tradition, to the contrary, biology has been considered almost satanic when in reality biology is the method to evolve to Godhood. We would have compared our actions to cutting the Gordian Knot, had we not appreciation for the Traditionalists, who prefer to laboriously untie the knot, so we respectfully leave them to their ritual. Also, our respect for the general philosophy of Conservatism keeps us working within “the possible.”

Wednesday, February 06, 2008

The inclusion of evolution and genetic engineering in religion is, of course, considered absurd, at least until it is understood that we must evolve to Godhood. Political totalitarianism is also assumed, at least until it is understood that the classical, Western, American system of equal justice under law is certainly affirmed. Evolutionary programs can work in harmony with the American concept, which affirms equality of opportunity but not equality of final reward. America is a Christian nation, therefore, the typical 20 percent who always need assistance should be given the opportunity to advance, especially the children. People cannot be forced to advance. Totalitarian systems always end up destroying all classes of people. We need to maintain the classic balance of order, freedom and justice, which the American Constitution champions, as we evolve.

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

During this election period we might do well to reread “The Political Principles of Robert A. Taft,” by Russell Kirk and James McClellan. Ron Paul's attempts to teach democratic principles resemble Taft's battles to restore federalism, the separation of powers, and the Bill of Rights.

The framers of the Constitution clearly knew that every democracy in history finally degenerated into tyranny, an empire or a kingdom. Listen to this 1946 quote from Taft: “We have fooled ourselves in the belief that we could teach another nation democratic principles by force. Why, we can't even teach our own people sound principles of government.”

“All modern political teachings are secularized theological concepts” (Carl Schmitt)

"A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation." Edmund Burke

“The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.” ~Jacques Yves Cousteau

“...For if America is to endure as a nation, her peoples are going to need the freedom to live differently and the space to live apart, according to their irreconcilable beliefs...”

“...Can we all just get along?” asked Rodney King during the Los Angeles riot of 1992. Well, if we can’t, we can at least dwell apart...After all, it’s a big country. ”

Patrick J. Buchanan

"... New faiths have to be grafted upon old ones. All great teachers have built upon the past traditions of the race. They have to come to lead. They alter and adapt the Eternal Ancient Wisdom to the peculiar needs of that race, to the particular Message which that race is destined to leave for humanity. So also the Lord Zoroaster found a certain mass of tradition in Iran and the Message He gave to this branch of the human race was based upon what they had inherited from a dim and distant past..."

http://www.farvardyn.com/zoroaster.php

Decentralize the world to save the world

Truth is one, paths are many

"He who hath grown wise concerning old origins, lo, he will at last seek after the fountains of the future and new origins." (Friedrich Nietzsche "Thus Spake Zarathustra")

"Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists" – Joseph de Maistre

"Far from being the ultimate measure of all things, man can only realize himself in reaching beyond himself."

(from "Populorum Progressio," Pope Paul VI)

"What is enclosed in the sanctuary of the arcanaIs disclosed in the testimony of phenomena."

- Ibn ‘Ata’illah

"The universe is a machine for making gods." Bergson

“The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.” Rilke

"Things change because they are not complete." St. Thomas Aquinas

"All culture arises out of religion. When religious faith decays, culture must decline, though often seeming to flourish for a space of time after the religion which has nourished it has fallen into disbelief... no cultured person should remain indifferent to the erosion of apprehension of the transcendent." Russell Kirk, Eliot and His Age

Fundamentalists claim to be returning to an original Christianity based on biblical texts, seemingly unaware that as early as the third century, Christian scholars such as Origen were arguing that the scriptures, at a time when the New Testament was still not in its final form, needed to be interpreted allegorically rather than literally. Who are the traditionalists here? — Charles Freeman

“A writer’s goal is to fight the lie.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"The innovator has for enemies all who have done well under the old conditions and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new” Machiavelli

“God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.”

Alfred Adler

Believe one who has tried: You shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in books. The trees and the rocks will teach you what you cannot hear from the masters.

-Bernard of Clairvaux

If I have the least bit of knowledgeI will follow the great Way aloneand fear nothing but being sidetracked.The great Way is simplebut people delight in complexity.Tao Te Ching, 53.

"What is culture? The word itself comes from “cultus” or cult and has intrinsic religious dimensions. Culture, strictly speaking, refers to all the aspects of daily life that bear the imprint of society’s religious center: tools, architecture, clothing, as well as art, literature, and music. From this perspective, culture refers to the sanctification of daily life.”

Arthur Verluis

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

—Euclid

According to Aristotle, nature itself drives toward the good.

"That by which we fall is that by which we rise."Tantric saying

Einstein: “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct." Niels Bohr

"Archetypes are like riverbeds which dry up when the water deserts them, but which it can find again at any time. An archetype is like an old watercourse along which the water of life flowed for centuries, digging a deep channel for itself. The longer it has flowed in the channel the more likely it is that sooner or later the water will return to its old bed."[Wotan, C.G. Jung]

“A theory is more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premise, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended its range of applicability…”-Einstein

“To Know the Absolute is to Be the Absolute.” Bede Griffiths

To define is not to know, to be is to know. To be or not to be is indeed the question. KLA

My teachings are very easy to understand and to practice; yet there is no one in the world who is able either to understand or to practice them. This is because my teachings have an originating principle and arise from an integrated system. This is not understood, so I am unknown.

~ Lao Tzu

Take refuge in the law of evolution.

It is possible to learn the outer steps that must be accomplished in a rite without learning the inner meanings that are the keys to the sacred traditions. Each seeker must therefore open his heart to the Great Mystery as he tries to follow the sacred way, because the perfect accomplishment of the outer steps of a rite will be worth nothing without the knowledge of the inner meanings.

Patience is a tree—Its roots may be bitter (to eat),but its fruit is the sweetest of sweet.

-African proverb

"T.S. Eliot pointed out that an artist creates his own "school" of predecessors that nobody noticed had anything in common before."

Steve Sailer

There is no visible thing, in the world, more worthy to serve as a symbol of God than the sun,which illuminates with visible life, first itself,then all the celestial and mundane bodies.- DANTE

We can only accommodate the changing demographics of the nation and the world if we hold fast to the rights and independence of the states and of local rule. Otherwise the always changing demographics may vote the laws and the Constitution out of existence, and the freedom to evolve will be lost. KLA

Every human being is born to develop and evolve on the high path to future Godhood for their descendants, and the Evolutionary Christian Church is the means to activate that potential. KLA

"Accept the truth, whatever its sources."Moses Maimonides

"Every truth – no matter who speaks it – is from the Holy Spirit."(omne verum a quocumque dicatur a Spiritu Sancto est) (St Thomas Aquinas)

It is not words or numbers or the order of words and numbers that govern the Kosmos, it is the Objects that the words and numbers define which govern the Kosmos. (KLA)

Materia and energy are INTERTWINED with time in physics. So there can not be any time before materia and energy, neither can we say that materia and energy are eternal as if there was some kind of meta-time, because there is no such thing. And if the supernatural does exist, it is natural. There is no point in talking of something being supernatural. If something does exist IT IS PART OF NATURE, part of Ahura.

Alexander Bard

“The purer the person or the thing is, the quicker the world will violate and destroy it.” Dowson